Idaho Supreme Court· 5/19/1978

Seppi v. Betty

Citations

579 P.2d 683
99 Idaho 186
1978 Ida. LEXIS 398

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“[T]he trial court has broad discretion to order a new trial when it believes that the verdict, whether general or special, is a product of the jury’s misunderstanding.”
Idaho Supreme Court found that trial court did not commit reversible error by informing jury on effect of apportioning 50% or more fault to plaintiff
“the trial courts should be given discretion not to so inform the jury in those cases where the issues are so complex or the legal issues so uncertain that such instructions would confuse or mislead the jury”
\the trial courts should be given discretion not to so inform the jury in those cases where the issues are so complex or the legal issues so uncertain that such instructions would confuse or mislead the jury\

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Judges: Bakes, McFadden, Donaldson, Bistline, Scoggin

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